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Iran
Focus
 London, Feb. 16 – A European Parliamentary
group accused Iran’s
Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) of being active in the
European Union, hours after the European Parliament adopted a resolution
condemning Tehran’s
suspected nuclear weapons activities its defiance of the international
community.
Friends of a Free Iran said that Tehran
had “greatly intensified the operations of its terror-propaganda machine, both actively promoting Jihadism …
as well as under-cover of supposedly ‘anti-terrorism’”.
The group also warned that the MOIS had “massively increased its campaign
against its dissidents depicting themselves as ‘terrorism fighters’, with
the ultimate view of presenting the Iranian resistance, or Western
politicians who sympathise with it, as being the
terrorists instead of themselves”.
It said that as part of Tehran’s propaganda campaign, the intelligence
ministry was buying formal advertisement space in newspapers like
EU-Reporter, using cover names such as “EU Citizen” (a.k.a. Eurocitizen), “halteterreur”
(a.ka. “stopterreur”),
Centre d'Informations et d'Etudes
Géopolitiques (C.I.E.G.), "interlink",
or "aawa".
“MOIS is developing a very aggressive campaign that experts on terrorism
have been comparing to the last propaganda campaign that the regime
developed preceding the launching of its terrorist attacks of the beginning
of the nineties”, a statement by the group said on Wednesday.
It added that Tehran was launching satellite
networks propagating its message spanning Europe, North America and North Africa with programming both in Farsi and
Arabic. Such programs are intended to “awaken Muslims” against Western behaviour.
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